Chapter 169: Interception

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Liang Yi, the commander of the Xia Army's Baotai Army, walked the northern line, and returned to Tumaochuan to cut off the Song army's retreat according to the plan, he led the army all the way lightly and arrived at the designated place on time, but the Song army ran faster than the rabbit, and ran away as soon as he heard the sound of horses' hooves, so he was busy. K update because of the rush to travel lightly, so the materials carried are limited, I was counting on getting some oil and water from the Song army, but the Song army not only ran fast, but also packed up the house is not slow, the house is clean, everywhere is like a broom carefully swept, not to mention that the human hair did not even touch a rabbit hair.

After the merger, the Baotai military division stayed on the left flank, but it was close to the desert, and others could still replenish the next two bags by looting everywhere, but the rabbits on their side were unwilling to, and the weakness of the lack of materials was exposed at once. But it's easy to understand when you think about it, the horse and the camel are their own, and there is no one to accompany them when they die, can they not play with their lives?

Liang Yi saw that his army could no longer open the pot, so he could only lead the army to a place far away from the camp to make up for it, pick some wild vegetables, and fight a beast to fill his stomach, as for the evil god, no matter how terrible it is, it is not as terrible as it is hungry, and now he can't take care of it much!

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Liang Yi had to make a gesture of sharing weal and woe with everyone, and he also led a team of personal soldiers to hunt. He was lucky, he met a group of yellow sheep, he led the soldiers to chase out more than 20 miles, the results were quite fruitful, shooting 100 yellow sheep, everyone was very happy...

The sun had turned west, and a camel thorn grew on the side of the road in the wasteland, which the war horse did not eat at all, and the camel barely swallowed it, and an unknown bird foraged in it, catching the small insects that parasitized it. Suddenly, it noticed a pair of staring eyes in the bush looking at it, 'Run! The bird could not help but let out a cry and fluttered its wings and flew away.

"The cavalry that passed by in the morning, I wonder if there is a general or something in the road?" Wearing an earthy yellow combat uniform of the same color as the desert, Ba Zhouquan changed his posture with inconspicuous movements, and quietly asked the sand around him.

"There seems to be one, the military attache wearing iron armor, a brocade coat, and a black lacquer crown on his head, at least a commander, I once saw his father wearing it!" Shadui put down the binoculars in his hand and said, Shadui is the eldest son of the Qu Ru family, and Birch is the second son of the Yeli family, but Shadui is now a domestic slave of the prince's family, although Birch is older than the prince, but he is his nephew. Shadui also thought that he was the prince's person, so he couldn't embarrass the prince, and as soon as he worked hard to join the special combat team, although Birch became a captain, he was an ordinary junior officer among the tiger generals, and it was difficult to see the prince. He once heard his comrades in the same team quietly tell him that the prince took a fancy to him, and in the words of the prince, 'Shadui is a good boy and can be of great use', which made Shadui work harder.

"Hey, now there is no difference between this Xia and the Han people, and you can still see one or two for the long time you have been in the Xia Kingdom!" Although everyone knows that Shadui is a close confidant of the prince, Shadui is kind and sincere, low-key, and never mentions the special relationship with the prince in front of everyone, so even people with such a low background in a small tribe can become friends with him.

"Well, my father said that the current Xia people are no longer the Dangqiang men of the past, without the martial arts and enthusiasm of the past, they have to learn from the Han people in everything, and the things of their ancestors are about to be lost!" Shadui frowned and said, Now the difference between Han people and Dang Xiang people is getting less and less, so that it is difficult to distinguish from the clothing, although they have also talked about it in class, but it is still difficult to distinguish it when they look at it suddenly. …,

With the deepening of feudalization, the Western Xia, which was in a slave society, slowly evolved into a semi-feudal and semi-slave society, and the phenomenon of emphasizing literature over military force as the Song Dynasty became increasingly serious. During the time of benevolence and filial piety, the school was greatly revitalized, and the country's military strength was weakening day by day. Before the founding of the Tangut state, the customs of the Tangut people varied according to the ethnic groups within the territory. The party members, who have lived together with the Han people for a long time, have gradually changed their inherent customs and habits due to changes in their production activities and lifestyles.

The costumes of the people of the main ethnic party in the Western Xia, except for those who were engaged in nomadic producers, basically changed the original habit of "clothing and fur", and wore the same cloth or silk as the local Han people. When Jingzong Li Yuanhao founded the country, he once stipulated the clothing of civil and military officials: "The civil capital is a head, boots, purple clothes, and scarlet clothes; The martial profession is crowned with gold and cloud crowns, gold crowns between silver posts, black lacquer crowns, purple swirls, gold-coated silver belts, weeping pouches, wearing knotted cones, short knives, bow and arrow bags, horses riding salamander skin saddles, hanging red tassels, and playing across cymbals. Casual clothes are purple soapy embroidery plates, ball flowers, swirls, and belts. The people are green, so don't be expensive and cheap". Until the first year of Xia Xiandao, Li Yuanhao, in order to maintain the old customs of the party's ancestors, issued a "baldness order" in China, bald hair is shaved on the top of the head, and heavy rings are worn through the ears. He took the lead in baldness himself, and then ordered all the people in the country to be bald, with a three-day deadline, and those who did not obey were put to death, which can be regarded as the last position of his own national customs, and he was not completely assimilated.

According to the instructions of the prince, their special combat team checked the deployment of the Xia army, the number of each unit, and sniped valuable targets; On the other hand, if the situation permits, it is to intercept and kill the Xia army scouts in the desert area to prevent the whereabouts of Zhao Ren's military horses from being revealed. Since last night, their group has been lurking here, but after waiting for a long time, a team of Xia troops passed, and they judged from the banner that it was the troops of the Baotai Military Division, but they didn't know why they ran to the desert for Lu, could it be that they discovered the intention of the loyal and brave army, and went to besiege Zhao Rendu to control the people along the way?

"I didn't pay attention at all, the captain sent a message that there were enemy troops coming, about three hundred people!" The sand pile suddenly saw from the camera the signal from the captain Shang Hu, who was lying in ambush on the sand mountain two hundred steps away from them.

"Five hundred went, three hundred returned, where did the rest go, were they exposed, and the enemy detoured at them from behind?" Quan Wu frowned and thought.

"The captain reported that there are about 100 Xia troops, and the rest are our people, and he orders us to cooperate with other groups to rescue them, annihilate this enemy army, and find out the whereabouts of the rest of the Xia army!" Sandpile didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking, and watched the order sent by the captain in the flag language to convey to Wu Wu.

"We have twenty of us, and the enemy army is hundred, and we have used knives to kill chickens!" He loaded the bullet without loading, grabbed a pinch of fine sand and slowly scattered it on the ground, measured the direction and speed of the wind, and then found a comfortable position, aimed the muzzle of the sniper rifle in the direction of the enemy, and measured the distance. The gun in the hands of the whole is more than a foot longer than the bead guns in the hands of others, the range is longer, the trajectory is more stable, but there is no scope and bracket, and it is not a sniper rifle in the real sense, but this kind of gun is difficult to manufacture, and only those with the best marksmanship are qualified to equip it and use it as a sniper.

Liang Yi was very happy today, chasing the yellow sheep and also chased out the extra money, found a small tribe hiding in the desert, surrounded them, robbed more than a thousand sheep, searched out four or five hundred stone of grain, and also caught one hundred and ten tribesmen, this is the largest foreign wealth he has obtained since he sent out the army, and with these things he can last for two days. Liang Yi was happy to walk in front with a team of personal soldiers to escort the captured population, and the rest of the people carried food to drive the flock, but they walked fast and gradually widened the distance from the follow-up troops. …,

"This is exactly the Xia army that left in the morning, they are going to fight the Grass Valley!" Seeing Liang Yi wearing a black lacquer crown walking in front, Shadui immediately determined the identity of the Xia Jun of the second team, and when he saw the walkers staggering behind him, he was angry and bumped up, these people are all the people of Hezhou, maybe their own people, "The target appears, the wind speed is level three, the distance is three hundred steps, ready to shoot!" ”

'Bang, bang' had just finished reporting the parameters and was ready to shoot, another group hidden near him fired first, and the two pro-soldiers around Liang Yi only came and got off their horses. Faced with this situation of having fewer people and more people, they were taught not to clash head-on with the enemy as much as possible, but to use their superiority in weapons to bully others.

Liang Yi's personal soldiers also reacted quickly, and they were surprised and knew what they were doing, and immediately drew their swords, drew their bows, and a few people took off their shields to surround the leaders in the middle, vigilantly searching the surrounding situation, but after the gunshots, the surroundings fell into dead silence, except for the sound of the wind and the yellow sand, there was no living creature to see.

But a moment later, the sound of gunfire broke the silence again, almost every explosion later, a Xia army would fall off the horse, Liang Yi's personal soldiers also quickly found the figure of the Song army from the smoke and dust, Zhilu Dao was ambushed, and immediately divided into two teams, one team of men and horses launched an attack, trying to expel the assassins, and the other team escorted Liang Yi to break through and escape from danger.

'Bang' prepared for a long time to shoot nothing, his target is Liang Yi, killing a general is much better than killing a bunch of shrimp, but it is not easy to aim at a fleeting target in the heavy guards, seeing that they want to run, there is no choice but to shoot at Liang Yi's horse's head, break his leg first, and see how he escapes!

Suddenly the horse lost its front hooves, Liang Yi planted the horse, he was in the prime of life, and he had been fighting on the horse for a long time, in the panic or instinctively rolled and stood up, a pro-soldier immediately gave up his horse to him, Liang Yifei got on the horse and pulled out the knife, he was very angry, he fell so embarrassed for the first time, and he had not seen the appearance of the opponent. But soon his anger was gone, and there was a trace of panic on his face, and the guards around him continued to fall off their horses, decreasing layer by layer like skinning, and the soldiers who expelled the assassins were even worse, although they could see the enemy, the bows and arrows in their hands could not shoot the enemy, the distance was too far, and they could only gallop into the range of the horses, but they returned in vain in the explosion...

In the evening, the headless body of Liang Yi, the commander of the Baotai Army, was carried into the big tent of Chage, and the whole army was shocked, and the 100,000 army advanced into the hinterland of the enemy's territory.